THE GREAT BEAR PAMPHLET SERIES

~ Marcus Slease

the Great Bear pamphlet series
This series of pamphlets, published by Something Else Press from 1965-67, featured  experimental writing from the likes of John Cage,  Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, and Nam Jun Paik. The pamphlets ranged from 16 to 32 pages in length, were saddle-stitched, and were printed on varying color stock; content included concrete poems, undoable acts, unactable plays, collages, essays, manifestos, and diaries.  
you can download pdfs of the individual pamphlets HERE
you can buy reissued copies of the pamphlets HERE
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Published by Marcus Slease

Marcus Slease is a (mostly) absurdist, surrealist, and fabulist writer from Portadown, N. Ireland. He is the author of The Green Monk, The Spirit of the Bathtub, Play Yr Kardz Right, Rides, Mu (dream) So (Window), and Godzenie, among others. His poetry has been translated into Danish and Polish, featured in the Best British Poetry series, and he has performed his work at various festivals and events in Prague, Madrid, London, Bristol, Manchester, North Carolina, and Ireland. He has made his home in such places as Turkey, Poland, Italy, South Korea, the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom – experiences that inform his nomadic surrealist writing. Currently, he lives in Castelldefels, Spain and teaches high school literature. He is working on a trilogy of nomadic surrealist novels entitled The Autobiography of Don Whiskers. 

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